American cognitive psychologist who helped found the cognitive revolution in psychology and applied it to teaching through discovery learning and the spiral curriculum, the claim that core ideas of any field can be introduced simply and then revisited in deeper form as a learner matures. His Process of Education shaped American curriculum reform from the 1960s onward.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped discovery learning and the spiral curriculum, arguing any subject can be taught honestly to a learner at any stage if revisited at increasing levels of complexity. 1 Notable WorkThe Process of Education (1960) 1 Level Worked At Jerome Bruner
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Jerome Bruner joined the NYU faculty in 1991, teaching primarily in the School of Law.
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Jean Piaget, Thinkers Bruner's cognitive-development work built on and argued with Piaget's stage account.
Bruner's discovery learning draws on Dewey
Lev Vygotsky, Thinkers Bruner's scaffolding idea drew on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory.
Theories and Approaches Developed
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.- Birth Year: 1915
- Death Year: 2016
- Birthplace: New York, New York
- Nationality / Culture: American
- Defining Contribution: Developed discovery learning and the spiral curriculum, arguing any subject can be taught honestly to a learner at any stage if revisited at increasing levels of complexity.
- Notable Work: The Process of Education (1960)
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He taught and conducted research at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and New York University.
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Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915, June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.
Theories and Approaches Developed: Spiral Curriculum, Jerome Bruner, Developmental psychology section
Bruner proposed the spiral curriculum, a teaching approach in which each subject or skill area is revisited at intervals, at a more sophisticated level each time.
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Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915, June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.
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the pioneering Harvard psychologist Jerome Bruner explores in a magnificent essay titled The Act of Discovery
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In 1991, Bruner joined the faculty at New York University (NYU), where he taught primarily in the School of Law.
Spiral approach (Wikipedia)
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Jerome Bruner proposed the spiral curriculum as a teaching approach in which each subject or skill area is revisited at intervals, at a more sophisticated level each time.
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Scaffolding theory was first introduced in the late 1950s by Jerome Bruner, a cognitive psychologist.
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Concept learning, also known as category learning, concept attainment, and concept formation, is defined by Bruner, Goodnow, & Austin (1956) as "the search for and testing of attributes that can be used to distinguish exemplars from non exemplars of various categories".
Distributed Scaffolding (Wikipedia)
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Originally introduced by Wood, Bruner, and Ross in 1976, the learning tool of scaffolding is rooted in individualized support and tutoring.
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Constructivism as a Question About Authority
Jerome Bruner, one of the three thinkers this essay names
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